TUK Premium Powered Bookshelf Speakers

Great I use it for my computer as a desktop speaker. I heard the whole line of speakers at Axpona. My advice is to spend the extra money and get the air motion tweeter it is so much better than the soft dome tweeter. I also use a subwoofer with this works great.

Love these speakers. I’m no audiophile but this was a HUGE upgrade from my little 2.1 system from ~2005 with my pc. I love that I can clean up my office and eliminate my huge receiver and bulky shelf speakers to integrate my record collection through this system. Couldn’t be happier.

Setup is at the top of the stairs in a split-level on the sitting room (living room) side. I did opt for the Sub8 for the extra bass. Source is an Ocean Digital WR-50 (not a DAC or streamer but I didn't need those features). Using the optical connection between the source and the speakers.These things are awesome. Clean and loud! They will fill the entire house with sound loud. The sub does add a bunch to the setup with the crossover. I like my music bright with good mid-range and highs. Cranking the volume up results in almost no distortion. In some repect they can get too loud (which is unbelievable).My only peeve is the remote conrol because there is no easy way to see where the current settings stand to adjust them. You have to either pop all the way up or down and then adjust from there for the bass and treble. I only use the speakerswith one source so I have nothing to say about source switching.As can be seen in the picture my grills are not grey (which come with the White speakers). I contacted Kanto to get a set of Black grills so the TUKs would match the Sub8. Never be afraid to ask.It is a bit of an expensive setup but it is worth it.As for my source, it is not super hifi tech like you would get with an expensive DAC for high quality streaming content. I bring this up because I don't use this system often so I have no need to spend money on an expensive DAC or streaming services (monthly cost). I mosty use the FM Radio, Internet Radio and media files (ripped CDs) for music. For not so high quality sources, the TUKs are still killing it! If you are looking for something to front-end any powered speakers on the somewhat cheap (<$200) The Ocean Digital WR-50 is a great source.

First off, I was skeptical about bass from small speakers. I was pleasantly surprised how good the bass is.Short of wall shaking (you need a dedicated sub for that), I have no complaints.Now for the cons, seems most review don't really talk about the little things.It comes with a remote that allows you to set extra settings like bass/treble/bluetooth/led.If you lose the remote, you won't be able to set most of those settings anymore.If you turn your speakers off (rural power, save energy, power blips etc.) you lose all your settings including your source input.No knobs to hard preset volume/bass/treble (only remote).It goes into standby mode by default (after 30mins no audio), but it doesn't seem to wake up when playing audio again (at least not in optical source mode), have to press knob or a button on the remote.I contacted Kanto support, seems all that is by design in general for their models. Boo!Not sure how hard it would be to save settings. Seems every other vendor can do it just fine from dirt cheap ones to uber expensive ones.Minus one star for all the cons.Work around was to connect the speakers to my battery backup, should be good for power blips.

Full disclosure, I bought the speakers when it was discounted from 899 to 499. that price makes sense to me for home office desk speakers.I like to buy premium products for my home usage and not cheap out, but no doubt that $900 Price tag is a lot for home office usage.Luckily with The discounted price I managed to get them Eventually after keeping my eyes Open for a discount for five months.. And I’m very happy with the purchase, they match beautifully to my white desk set up.I started Using them out of the box with no stand usage as shown in the pictures.Then got metal angled stands. They had great quality and excellent with directing the sound towards the listener ears, but it didn’t leave any space on my table/:so I switched to New and higher 9 inch stands that gives me more room and space for other items on my table, plus I think it looks even more beautiful and gives it a a clean aesthetic.It comes with the remote and lots of ports and exits for you to utilize for your set up, and it just makes me relax when I’m future proofing the setup with electronic purchase that way.I’m very happy with all of the functionality except One thing that drives me crazy , the switching of the different audio Presets/output…which require numerous times of clicking and pressing.Even the new fancy remote make you switch between them one by one/:For example if you wanna switch through: Phono, RCA, OPT, USB, Bluetooth.It will require you to click on the same button for time just to get from Bluetooth mode to USB mode, if the speaker is in sleep mode than five times. You get my drift.at first I was looking at audio engine brand as well, or previous older models of Kanto speakers, but I decided I want the best of the best and after long few weeks of Research I chose Play is this tuk speakers on my list, and just wait several months for it to be discounted.which I highly recommend on doing.